Privilege is simply the idea that our experiences, upbringing, circumstances and sometimes, the gender or race we’re born with, mean that we cannot fully understand what someone else with a different set of circumstances goes through.
This makes some sense. After all, I as a male cannot fully understand what it’s like to be a woman and when a woman speaks of her own personal experience, I need to listen and to be conscious that it might differ markedly from my own.
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